Shuttle Remembered

4:20 pm

Tue October 26, 2010

Images from Shuttle Columbia Debris Recovery

A piece of the Shuttle Columbia lies on the ground in East Texas after crashing to the earth in 2003.

Photo by Bob Daemmrich

KUT is in the middle of broadcasting a weeklong series about the US space shuttle program. NASA is retiring the shuttle in early 2011, and we are reporting on what the program has meant to Texas and what its cancellation will mean for our future.

Texas Tribune photographer Bob Daemmrich heard our series and sent us some pictures he took in the immediate aftermath of the Shuttle Columbia disaster. He captured some amazing images of the wreckage and allowed us to upload them to our Flickr page to share with you. Here are a few.